The airport was closed from around 9am, and the first flight did not arrive until 6pm.
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Gamera I's first flight in May 2011 lifted off the ground for about four seconds.
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Or, since the first flight will be from Toronto toVancouver, to the Roots Lodge on Vancouver Island.
Boeing says the plane's first flight will not take place until the fourth quarter of this year.
Branson said he would go on the first flight, along with family members including his father, now 86.
There's a reason newsman Walter Cronkite, who covered Glenn's first flight, came out of retirement to cover this one.
The first flight landed at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sunday evening, local time, after a short flight from Sapporo in northern Japan.
Right now, Hexcel orders await 787 first flight and a certification time line.
In 1971 the company changed its name to Southwest Airlines and made its first flight in June of that year.
Time seemed to fold in on itself, and in an instant I found myself aboard my first flight to London.
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The 747-8 Intercontinental's first flight marks the beginning of a flight test program that will finish in the fourth quarter.
"What a great privilege to be at the controls of such a great airplane on its first flight, " said Feuerstein.
Months before its first flight, slated for January, the company announced it would revolutionize cheap travel, but was keeping its name under wraps.
He was soon assigned to an all-jet squadron, making his first flight in an F9F-2B Panther on January 5, 1951.
The first flight carrying cruise guests from the Bahamas left Tuesday morning, and flights will continue throughout the day, Carnival said.
In 1968, Russia's TU-144 supersonic airliner made its first flight, several months ahead of the Anglo-French Concorde, which it closely resembled.
She flew back to the U.S. on the first flight Saturday morning, and is now in the hospital recovering, CBS said.
Born in 1930 and raised in Ohio, Armstrong took his first flight aged six with his father and formed a lifelong passion for flying.
When his first flight was delayed, Drake thought he would miss his connecting flight to Lubbock, the last one of the day.
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He should have been on the first flight to Italy, making himself available and visible in at the site of the wreck.
Judith Lavender, Callum's mother, admitted to being nervous about his first flight.
China's L-15 made its first flight in 2006, and was displayed for the first time overseas at the Dubai air show in 2009.
She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning.
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SpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan, who is beginning work on Virgin's space fleet, has promised to ride along with Branson on the first flight.
However, the company admitted that the new A400M military transport aircraft has been beset with technical problems, forcing it to delay its first flight.
In 1939, although experiments with hovering aircraft had been going on since 1900, the first successful helicopter, Igor Sikorsky's VS-300, made its first flight.
First flight of the 787 Dreamliner occurred on December 15, 2009.
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The paradigm shift, which began with SpaceShipOne's first flight into space in June, is away from government-funded space programmes to a dynamic bevy of private efforts.
The first night flight of a solar-powered craft in 2010 was followed by a first international flight in 2011, and first inter-continental flight in 2012.
The Vulcan XH558 took its first flight on 25 May 1960 and was originally built to carry nuclear weapons but was only ever used as a nuclear deterrent.
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